I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever’s making the decision to understand that once it’s pushed, it’s over. Finito. They’re not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won’t be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn’t just a dress rehearsal for something better – but the only shot we get. Quentin R Bufogle
Why do presidents feel compelled to meet with popes? Secret Access: The Vatican, 2011
National security and homeland security directive: National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 11 & 20. On May 9th 2007 President Bush unlawfully granted himself new powers and the presidency officially became a fiat dictatorship ... Now, all power resides with the president. For the smallest of reasons, including ...‘any incident in the world regardless of location, that affects population, infrastructure, environment, economy or government functions’ can trigger the president ... total martial law. Alex Jones, Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, 2007
There have been thousands of tyrannical governments in history, and less than ten that can be called free. ibid.
Now they’ve taken over our government, but with Republicans and Democrats there’s no difference any more between the two parties. They [the Federal Reserve and New World Order] control both parties. It doesn’t matter to them which one wins. Because whoever’s running for president will be someone they anoint ... They makes sure who gets the money. Aaron Russo, interview with Alex Jones
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the president takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation. Carl Sagan
I’m Jimmy Carter, and I’m going to be your next president. Jimmy Carter
All the security around the American president is just to make sure the man who shoots him gets caught. Norman Mailer, cited Sunday Telegraph 4th March 1990
I created my own party. It’s called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I’m running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I’ve studied the presidency carefully. Utah Phillips
The really good thing about meeting the president of the United States is the food. Forrest Gump ***** 1994 starring Tom Hanks & Robin Wright & Gary Sinise & Mykelti Williamson & Sally Field & Haley Joel Osment & Peter Dobson & Dick Cavett & Sam Anderson & Geoffrey Blake & Siobhan Fallon et al, director Robert Zemeckis
For millions the election of Barack Obama to the Oval Office marked a new era of hope. The young energetic president was eager to take on the great challenges of his time. But change would be harder than Obama had predicted. Inside Obama’s White House: 100 Days, BBC 2016
Obama had been battling the recession for three months when he bailed out the motor industry … One promise in particular had inspired the world to believe he could restore America’s ideals: ‘Order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo.’ ibid.
Obama knew it would be unrealistic to create an American NHS. Instead he set out to fix the insurance-based system. Inside Obama’s White House II: 100 Days Obamacare
A young energetic president was eager to restore America’s reputation with the rest of the world. Inside Obama’s White House III: Don’t Screw It Up
By the end of his first term Obama had realized Change was harder than he had predicted. Inside Obama’s White House IV: The Arc of History
Obama’s coalition of women, gays, African-Americans and first-time voters was coming together. ibid.
Obama had inspired euphoria and hatred in almost equal measures. For every change he proposed he faced unprecedented opposition from Republicans in Congress. ibid.
‘Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.’ President Trump: Can He Really Win? Mitt Romney, Channel 4 2016
Never before has so divisive a figure come so close to power. ibid.
This is no ordinary presidential election … Centre stage is America’s most famous rich man. Trump: America’s Next President, Sky Atlantic 2016
‘It’s a revolt against the established order.’ ibid. Roger Stone, former Trump adviser
She is the most experienced candidate ever; a woman with a global profile. And with the chance of making American history. The presidency should be Hillary Clinton’s destiny. But instead of a coronation it’s become a slog, with familiar scandal and new controversies. Once American royalty, now one of the most polarizing candidates in history. The Hillary Clinton Problem, Sky Atlantic 2016
The candidate who so many Americans just don’t like. ibid.
2016 has become about who Americans dislike least. ibid.
A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party’s nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the ‘women’s candidate’ and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
This is drivel, of course; Hillary Clinton leaves a trail of blood and suffering around the world and a clear record of exploitation and greed in her own country. To say so, however, is becoming intolerable in the land of free speech.
The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama should have alerted even the most dewy-eyed. Obama based his ‘hope’ campaign almost entirely on the fact of an African-American aspiring to lead the land of slavery. He was also ‘anti-war’.
Obama was never anti-war. On the contrary, like all American presidents, he was pro-war. He had voted for George W Bush’s funding of the slaughter in Iraq and he was planning to escalate the invasion of Afghanistan. In the weeks before he took the presidential oath, he secretly approved an Israeli assault on Gaza, the massacre known as Operation Cast Lead. He promised to close the concentration camp at Guantanamo and did not. He pledged to help make the world ‘free from nuclear weapons’ and did the opposite.
As a new kind of marketing manager for the status quo, the unctuous Obama was an inspired choice. Even at the end of his blood-spattered presidency, with his signature drones spreading infinitely more terror and death around the world than that ignited by jihadists in Paris and Brussels, Obama is fawned on as ‘cool’ (The Guardian). John Pilger, Trump and Clinton: Censoring the Unpalatable, March 2016; viz also website
They created Trump in the same way they created Blair. John Pilger, interview Going Underground RT television 2016
You can see him coming a mile off, or a Trump. ibid.
The truth is there was no-one to vote for. ibid.
The message of anti-globalisation we see now is global. Trump’s America: A Newsnight Special, BBC 2016
The issue of race has hung over this election often unnoticed but always present in the background. ibid.
The polls all predicted a win for Hillary Clinton. ibid.
America is reeling from Donald Trump’s stunning victory. His supporters can hardly believe their man pulled it off. Trump’s New America – Panorama, BBC 2016
He had promised to deport eleven million people, now he says he will prioritize two to three million illegals with a criminal past. ibid.
‘We have some bad hombres here and we’re going to get them out.’ ibid.
‘I am the law and order candidate.’ ibid.
Black anger is exploding. ibid.
Will he continue as the firebrand? ‘I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will ne president for all Americans, and this is so important to me.’ ibid.
America is heading into the unknown. ibid.
Certain inspiring moments have propelled candidates to victory. These are no those moments. It’s a long road to the White House: don’t screw it up. How to Lose the Presidency I, History 2017
9th November 2011, Rochester, Michigan: Rick Perry is engaged in a heated debate with seven other Republican candidates … ‘It’s three agencies of government when I get there that are gone – Commerce, Education, and the er, er what’s the third one there … the er … the er … er … third one I can’t. Oops!’ ibid.
I am officially running for president of the United States and we are going to make our country great again … We have people that are stupid … I will never be in a bicycle race, that I can tell you. ibid. Donald Trump
Please clap. ibid. Jeb Bush
Stand up, Chuck. Let me see ya. ibid. Joe Biden (Chuck in wheelchair)